Playing Cards and Popular Culture in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg

Playing-cards produced in Nuremberg throughout the sixteenth century bear bawdy images from the realm of popular culture. These illustrations appears not only on the cheapest decks, but also on expensive editions, indicating that folk humor appealed to poor and wealthy alike. The Nuremberg fathers d...

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Main Author: Smoller, Laura A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. 1986
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1986, Volume: 17, Issue: 2, Pages: 183-214
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